BUFO


Bufo homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Common names: Toads; (German) Die Krote; (French) Le Crapaud commun.

Introduction

Rana Bufo, L. Natural order: Bufonidae, of the Batrachian family of vertebrate animals. Preparation: Trituration of the poison from the cutaneous glands, obtained by irritating the animal.

Mind

Emotions. Constant feeling of intoxication. After eating he is always as if intoxicated. Paroxysms of fury, which cease as soon as he sees any one. Propensity to bite. The child runs like mad. Inclination to get drunk, and he takes pleasure in being intoxicated. Desires solitude, and yet is afraid of being left alone and dying forsaken. Aversion to strangers. Dislike to conversation. Howling, constant crying. Sadness, full of restlessness and apprehension. He is anxious about the state of his health; is afraid he will die or that some other misfortune will happen to him. Excessive anguish. Very easily frightened; a bird or insect flying by causes a start. Fear of animals. Fear of catching diseases. Very sensitive disposition. Choleric disposition. Nervousness; excessive irritability. Irritable, impatient humor. He is irritated and weeps about the merest trifle. He is irritable, anxious about his state of health, with great dread of death. Impatience and ill-humor. Ill-humor when going to sleep at night, and on waking in the morning. Defiance, duplicity, spitefulness. Anger, with desire to strike and destroy. Alternate complaining and crying in the case of a child. Varying mood; taciturn, hypochondriac. Apathy, sort of stupidity, with regular pulse. Intellect. Enfeebled intellect. Little disposed to work. Great difficult in collecting his ideas. He mistakes words; often he only half pronounces a word and gets angry when not understood. After an attack, imbecility, palpitation of the heart, trembling of all the limbs, spasmodic movements of the intestines, colic and pains, which extend into the groins. Idiocy, mania, furious insanity. Absence of mind; want of memory. After the dizziness, stupefaction, sometimes lasting for a minutes, and obliging him to seek support. Coma, which lasts two days. Stupor and inability to speak, which last two years.

Head

Vertigo and General Sensations. Vertigo. Vertigo with tottering, so that he requires support. Dizziness; the head is as if carried along by the motion of waltzing. Dizziness, especially in the morning, with weakness, as after losing blood. The dizziness appears only in the morning, three or four times, especially after a meal. Constant shaking of the head and arms. Numbness of the head, with sensation of intoxication and great somnolence. Heavy, stupefying headache, with sensation as if the scalp and ears were burned by an acid. Heaviness and weight of the head, so that he has to support it. Heaviness of the head. Pains in the head, extending to the maxillary sinuses. Neuralgic pains running through the whole head, and affecting the eyes and nape of the neck. Headache with vertigo, trembling of the whole body, dimness of sight, eructation, nausea, and vomiting. Great heat in the interior of the head, with sensation as if the brain were boiling. Sanguineous congestion, with deepseated pains in the brain. Sensation as if the cranial bones were separated. Pressive and contractive pains in the interior of the head. Pressive and throbbing pains in the head, with frontal heaviness. Sensation of a great weight on the head, with lancinating pains in the sinciput and eyes. Stitches and prickings in the brain. Sensation of shaking, as if a heavy ball was in the head. Hammering pains from the eyebrows to the cerebellum. Hammering sensation in different parts of the head, with commotion of the whole brain. Throbbing an lancinating pains, as if there were an abscess in the head. Sensation of shivering and of vibration in the head, accompanied by fluent coryza. Sensation as if the head were full of water. The pains in the head increase for three or four minutes, an then diminish during the same to time. Headache on waking, at 3 A.M., for two days in succession. Headache in the afternoon, after breakfast, continuing into the night and preventing sleep. Headache in the afternoon and at night, preventing sleep. Headache in the evening towards 5 o’clock, for an hour and a half, obliging him to lie down. Aggravation of the head symptoms by movement. Excessive headache after drinking spirits. The beating of the heart increases the headache and seems to correspond with it. Headache during work, when sitting. Headache better at night and by lying down. The epistaxis relieves the headache. Forehead, Temples, and Vertex. Weight in the forehead and eyelids; disturbed vision; sparks before the eyes, pain at the heart; cold sweat on the head and in the hair; coldness of the body, especially the feet, and such piercing colic as almost to cause fainting; at the same time burning thirst, vomiting after drinking; vomiting of food, then of bitter and acrid matter; the least movement aggravates the headache, and brings on the nausea and vomiting. Headache in the forehead and vertex, with soreness of those parts when touched, during eight days; the soreness is worse in the evening towards 4 to 5 o’clock. After a hard and curled stool, accompanied with protrusion of hemorrhoids, headache in the forehead, heaviness in the eyelids, and nausea. Lancinations from the interior of the head to the forehead and eyes. Clawing-digging pain in the left temple when walking, lasting one hour (after three-quarters of an hour). Alternate movements of traction and relaxation in the temples. Stitches in the temples, with constriction of the throat. Headache on waking, towards 3 A.M.; the pain affects the left temple and vertex; those parts are sore to touch. Pressure in the temples, as if the head were compressed by bands of iron. Sensation as if a hot vapor rose to the top of this head. Parietals, Occiput, and External. Hemicrania of the right side, ceasing when the nose bleeds. Semilateral headaches, with nausea, depression, and inclination to lie down, especially in the evening. Headache, sometimes on the right side, sometimes on the left. Lancinations in the cerebellum, making the head fall backwards; loss of consciousness and falling down; tonic and clonic spasms; turgescence and distortion of the face; convulsive agitation of the mouth and eyes; bloody salivation; involuntary emission of urine; repeated shocks through the whole body; the lower extremities are in more violent motion than the upper; face bathed in perspiration. Falling off of the hair. Complete baldness. The hair changes color and decays. A great deal of dandruff and scales on the scalp and all over the body. Copious sweat of the hairy scalp; all the head is soaked with it. Frequent the oily sweats on the head, especially in the evening. Sour and disagreeable smell of the hair. Great sensitiveness of the scalp. Burning-itching and shuddering in the scalp.

Eyes

Frightful and squinting look. The eye is somewhat bloodshot from the penetration of the venom. Inflammation of the eyes and lids. Sensation as from cold water on the eyes. Spasmodic pains in the eye. Drawing in the eyes, with dimness of vision. Pressive and crampy pains in the eyes, with dazzling and vertigo. Lancinating and drawing pains in the eyes. Lancinating and beating pains in the eye, which had been poisoned by the venom. Sensation as if the eyes were full of sand. Directly after the poison has been cast into the eye itching, redness, swelling, dimness of vision; very painful lancinating pain; stinging; these last two symptoms last a long time. A whitish-looking crust over the brows. Ulceration of the lids. Large scabs on the eyelids. Swollen and burning eyelids. The eyes open more widely. Inability to keep the eyelids open. Continual winking. Convulsive beating of the eyelids. The eyelashes fall out. Burning pains at the corners of the eyes, with ulceration and suppuration of these parts. Considerable lachrymation. Ulcers on the cornea. Pupil with red and white reflections. Pupil dilated and apparently vacillating. The sight, previously at times weak and disturbed, becomes excellent, and this condition lasts ten months. Myopia. Presbyopia. Dimness of vision. Loss of sight. Photophobia. He cannot look at bright objects. All objects appear crooked. Appearance of a veil before the eyes at exactly 3 or 4 o’clock P.M., with smarting in the eyes and lachrymation. Muscae volitantes.

Ears

Ears swollen and scabby. Inflammatory swelling of the ears and parotids. Warty excrescences on the ears. Desquamation, ulceration, suppuration, and bleeding of the concha of the ears. Ulcers and abscesses in the ears. Herpetic eruption behind the ears, with intolerable itching. Purulent discharge from the ears. Sensation of burning heat in the ears. Distensive pains in the ears, as if an animal was trying to force its way out. Feeling as if the auditory canal were stopped up by concretions. Crampy pains in the interior of the ears. Stitches and digging in the ears, as from a foreign body in them. Pulsative pains in the right ear, with a sensation as if there was hot vapor in it. Pressing on the submaxillary glands relieves the internal pains of the ears. Very sensitive hearing. The least noise annoys him; even music is unbearable. Attacks of deafness. Hardness of hearing; he hears, and especially understands words, with great difficulty. Crackling, roaring, and tingling in the ears. The symptoms of the ears often coincide with those of the eyes and the head. The contact of water aggravates all the ear symptoms.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.